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I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.

Edna Ferber

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Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Appleton
Wisconsin
Men
Hearing
Tired
Woman
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People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
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No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
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I like any place that isn't here.
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don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
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Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.
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Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.
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A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
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You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.
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A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
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Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
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writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.
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Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
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... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.
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